Record Five Pirates Named to NABC Honors Court for 2019-20

Kansas City, Mo. - Seton Hall men's basketball student-athletes Romaro Gill (St. Thomas, Jamaica), Takal Molson (Buffalo, N.Y.), Ike Obiagu (Abuja, Nigeria), Myles Powell (Trenton, N.J.) and Shaver Reynolds Jr. (Manchester, N.J.) have all been named to the 2019-20 NABC Honors Court for outstanding academic achievement this past season, the organization announced Wednesday. In order to be named to the Honors Court, student-athletes must be a junior or senior academically, matriculated at least one year at their current institution and have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher at the end of the 2019-20 academic year.

The five selections to the NABC Honors Court are a new record for Seton Hall men's basketball. Previously, the program had only as many as two in one year.

Gill and Powell now have multiple Honors Court selections in their careers while Molson, Obiagu and Reynolds Jr., all earn their first. Gill, Molson, Powell and Reynolds Jr., are all majoring in social and behavioral sciences, and Obiagu is majoring in accounting.

Only four BIG EAST schools had selections to the 2019-20 NABC Honors Court with Seton Hall representing five of the 14 total student-athletes selected (35.7 percent). Of the 25 teams in the final Associated Press top 25, Seton Hall is one of only 13 teams to place student-athletes on the Honors Court. Of the 42 teams to win at least a share of a conference championship in 2020, Seton Hall is one of only 18 teams to have student-athletes selected to the Honors Court.

Under 11th-year head coach Kevin Willard, Seton Hall men's basketball has been successful both on the court and in the classroom. As a team, the Pirates finished 2019-20 with a grade point average above 3.0, the fifth straight year the program has been above 3.0 at spring semester's end.

Seton Hall's NABC Honors Court History

2013 - Patrik Auda
2014 - Patrik Auda, Kevin Lynch
2017 - Michael Nzei
2018 - Romaro Gill, Michael Nzei
2019 - Romaro Gill, Myles Powell
2020 - Romaro Gill, Takal Molson, Ike Obiagu, Myles Powell, Shavar Reynolds, Jr.